Cannot load mod_deflate

Question

I'm running CentOS 5.6 with cPanel.

I've rebuilt my apache to have deflate enabled. Here is my EasyApache Build Log:

    ./configure
        --enable-deflate
        --enable-expires
        --enable-headers
        --enable-info
        --enable-logio
        --enable-proxy
        --enable-rewrite
        --enable-ssl
        --enable-suexec
        --enable-unique-id
        --prefix=/usr/local/apache
        --with-included-apr
        --with-pcre=/opt/pcre
        --with-ssl=/usr
        --with-suexec-caller=nobody
        --with-suexec-docroot=/
        --with-suexec-gidmin=100
        --with-suexec-logfile=/usr/local/apache/logs/suexec_log
        --with-suexec-uidmin=100
        --with-suexec-userdir=public_html

[...]

...checking whether to enable mod_deflate... yes (default)

Within my http.conf there is no LoadModule mod_deflate, and there is no mod_deflate.so within my Modules/ Directory.

What am I doing wrong?

ADDITIONAL INFO:

Ok, So I ran this command and it returned this:

/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -M Loaded Modules: core_module (static) authn_file_module (static) authn_default_module (static) authz_host_module (static) authz_groupfile_module (static) authz_user_module (static) authz_default_module (static) auth_basic_module (static) include_module (static) filter_module (static) deflate_module (static) log_config_module (static) logio_module (static) env_module (static) expires_module (static) headers_module (static) unique_id_module (static) setenvif_module (static) version_module (static) proxy_module (static) proxy_connect_module (static) proxy_ftp_module (static) proxy_http_module (static) proxy_scgi_module (static) proxy_ajp_module (static) proxy_balancer_module (static) ssl_module (static) mpm_prefork_module (static) http_module (static) mime_module (static) status_module (static) autoindex_module (static) asis_module (static) info_module (static) suexec_module (static) cgi_module (static) negotiation_module (static) dir_module (static) actions_module (static) userdir_module (static) alias_module (static) rewrite_module (static) so_module (static) bwlimited_module (shared) security2_module (shared) Syntax OK

Which Suggests that deflate is running.

I added this to my httpd.conf with no luck.

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript    application/javascript  application/xml

What needs to be added to get Deflate to work??

Answer 1

How are you determining that compression is ~not~ working?

Not 100% sure on this one, but I think you need to load the module in your conf, by compiling it in you are just compiling ~support~ for the module...

Try this:

# explicitly load the module
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

#
# Deflate output configuration
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript

# take care of silly browsers
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

-sean

Answer 2

I think you want to add --enable-so to your configure options.